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  • Israel stunned by Hawking snub Israel stunned by Hawking snub

    It is an event "of cosmic proportions", said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by the Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor, on May 8. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmologist and physicist. His scientific work had ...

  • Lost Apollo 11 moon dust found in California lab warehouse

    Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have been rediscovered inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years. An archivist found the samples last month while he was going over artifacts tucked away at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Fox News reported. Karen Nelson, who made the ...

  • Missiles not meteorites on US-Russia agenda

    The US plans to collaborate with Russia on missile issues and Afghanistan, but not planetary defence from space threats, a US diplomat said. Building a joint asteroid defence system was not a "real proposal" until the project has funding, which is not on the cards with either country, said US Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Gottemoeller. The meteorite ...

  • Earliest light in universe since Big Bang measured for 1st time

    The evolution of the extragalactic background light (EBL) over the past 5 billion years has been measured for the first time. That bath of ancient and young photons suffusing the Universe today is called the extragalactic background light (EBL). An accurate measurement of the EBL is as fundamental to cosmology as measuring the heat radiation left over from the Big Bang (the cosmic microwave ...

  • NTSB Bridge collapse in Washington is wake-up call

    View Photo Associated Press/The Seattle Times, Mike Siegel - A collapsed section of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River is seen in an aerial view Friday, May 24, 2013. Part of the bridge collapsed Thursday ...


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The Last Exorcism

The Last Exorcism

It has now been more than a decade since The Blair Witch Project (1999) took the Sundance Film Festival and then summer audiences by storm, riding a wave of buzz generated primarily by the then novel concept of employing faux documentary techniques to tell a horror story, t ... ...

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  • Oregon teen accused of planning to attack school

    PORTLAND, Ore. – An Oregon high school student is being charged with attempted murder after the authorities say he planned to attack his high school with bombs. The student, 17-year-old Grant Acord, was taken to a juvenile jail Thursday night after police received a tip that the youth was making a bomb to blow up West Albany High School. Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson ...

  • Rebuilding rules as rain soaks Jersey shore on Memorial Day weekend

    MANASQUAN, N.J. (AP) -- Saws and sledgehammers joined beer and barbecues -- under covered porches -- as a fixture of the first Memorial Day weekend at ...

  • Swedish capital returning to normal after week of violence

    STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's capital was relatively calm on Saturday night with only isolated incidents of violence by youths after nearly a week of car-burnings and vandalism that have highlighted growing inequality in Swedish ...

  • Protesters in over 400 cities march vs Monsanto

    Organizers say two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the U.S. and in over 50 other countries on Saturday."March Against Monsanto" protesters say they wanted to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it. Founder and organizer Tami Canal said protests were held in 436 ...

  • NYPD investigating actress Bynes allegations

    NEW YORK -; The New York Police Department is investigating allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that she was sexually assaulted by officers arresting her for throwing a bong out of a ...

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